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i' CHARLES H. FISHES Editor and Publisher Editorial Page of .The Capital Journal SATURDAY EVEX1X0 June 1, 1918 Wnimi '!l!l!!l!!'!'TII"VOj',ITMIM!;:!l! ni'iiiiira: liaiiuiaiuLiiiiiiUM. lilllJtAiliiSLllMiiM It'li'lMIIi'IVIIrfKl,'. PCBLISHED EVERT EVENING EXCEIT SUNDAY. SALEM, OREGON. Bt Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. L. 8. BARNES, President CHAS. H. FISHER. Vice 1'rwiiVnt. DORA C. ANDRESKN. Sec. and Tleas. SniSCRIPTIO.N RATES Daily by carrier, per year 15.00 Ter Month 4K Dally by mail, oer year 3.00 Per Month 5c FULL LEASED WIRE TELECiRAI'H RETORT E iSTEIt.N BEl'KESEiNTATl V'ES D. Ward, New Turk, Tribune Bulldln. I'liU-ago, W. B. Stockwell. People' Caa Building Tbe Capital Journal carrier boya are Instructed to put tbe papera on the porch. If the carrier does not do this, misses you. or neglect retting" the paper to you on time, kindly phone the circulation mannaer. ss thla I the only way ne can determine whether aot the carrier are following Instruction I'hone Muln Ml Wfor 7 :H0 o'clock and a paper will be aeut you by special messenger If the carrier ba missed you. THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL la tbe only newspaper In Salem whoae circulation la guaranteed by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. A POWER ABOVE THE LEGISLATURE The emergency board was created for the purpose of making workable the law forbidding the creating of a deficiency in the running of the state's business. It was tinderstood that certain conditions might arise under . which it would be impossible to carry on the affairs of the state and keep within the appropriations for the especial matter. Such a condition now faces the state prison. There is an institution that must be maintained, yet without the emergency board when the appropriation was exhausted it would have to quit business or the gov ernor call an extra session of the legislature to make provision for it. Such cases were no doubt what were in mind when the emergency board was created. However it has not yet been decided how far the emergency board may usurp the powers of the legislature and get away with it. The creation of the state police was a pretty long stretch of the emergency business. There was no deficiency of any kind, no appropriation exhausted, no institution short of funds, nothing about which the emergency board could act legally any more than it could have declared the state needed a new prison and so ordered the raising of the money for that purpose. It was legislation pure and simple, and nothing else. It was beyond the wildest imaginings of the author of the bill or those who voted for it. If the emergency board can create such a body as the State police, lawfully, then it can do any other legislation. It might possibly be a better way of making and unmaking our laws, than by having a legislature for the purpose, but the trouble with it is that so far there is nothing legalizing its acts. If it is to be permitted to do this kind of "emergency" business, it ... , l .1 1 i J il. 1 1 will be a power above tne legislature, ior n me legisla ture refused to pass a certain bill, tor instance one creat ing a state police, all that would be required would be the adjournment of the legislature, the calling of the emergency board and the "passing of a bill" by the pmercencv board that made that a law which the legislature refused so to make. Corpus Christi day, deliberately attacked hospitals, fired on Paris with their long range euns. and killed 18 per sons, besides sending a flock of airplanes to turn machine guns loose at American and British hospitals, shows how futile any agreement would be that was reached with them. There is neither truth nor decency in or among tnem. t The Woman Who Changed According to Mr. Hoover there is wheat and wheat products enough left in the country to allow the use of one-third wheat flour in the making of the nation's bread until harvest and the new crop is available.' This being the case why the attempt on the part of Ayer and his attorneys to make Oregon absolutely wheatless? Almost before we know it the new steel bridere will be ready for business, the summer solstice will have passed and we will be laying in our supply of wood for the com ing winter. Thus passeth away the days,, the weeks, the months, the yearsand life. 4c By JANE PHELPS WHAT MONEY CAN'T BUT. The action of the Huns, who after through the request cf the German archbishop of Rheims, having secured im munity from bombardment by British airmen during ' ; Rippling Rhymes i by Walt Mason ; WINNING THE WAR The things I do to win the war are things I always did abhor. So give me credit, I be- 'tsrs-mm seech, for loyalty that is a peach. I d like f " ,,vr to mount a foaming steed and charge the j -'"'x .5 foe at frightful speed. I'd like to ride an V aeroplane above the clouds that send the 1 X-v ,1 ran' abve the forest and the hill, and drop V (' some bombs on Kaiser Bill. I'd like to walk V " A a cruiser's deck 'mid scenes of battle and of wreck. But all such things are barred to me, I may not fight, on land or sea, I may not garner gory sheaves, because I'm fat and have the heaves. And so I'm doing things I hate, that I may keep my record straight. I'm digging soil and sowing seeds, and pruning .-J . 1 1 T j Ml J V . I 1 1 1 vines anu noeing weeas. i uu tne garaen ana repeat, ana there are sandburs in my feet; that valued foodstuffs be htipplied, I gather thistles in my hide; I grow the bean and marrowfat; I'll win the war or break a slat. I hope when history is writ, and warriors who did their bit are loaded with the heroes' bays, there'll be some mention of the jays who had to do their stunt at home, and, grow things in the fertile loam. I'm doomed to raise my sparrowgrass while younger men to battle pass, so I will do it with a will, and hoe my beets with wondrous skill, and raise fresh rhubarb by the keg; I'll win the war or break" a leg. 7 "r FRENCH STILL HOLDING (Continued from page one) bank of the river between Chateau'! Thierry and Dormnnd, a front of 12 miles. On the allied left wing, tho Ger mans have eossed tho Oise east of Semiguy, about two miles south ot Noyou, but are held on the western bank of the river. Futviher south, t!he Wierny crossed the highway running from Soinson southward to ChateauThirry and oc cupied Oulchy-le-Chateau and Oulchy-la-Ville, midway between the two for mer cities. On the right, British and French continue to hold Khcs, although the Genitalis aire developing 'their drive down tho Ardre valley to eneirclo the city from tihe southwest. Kheims is now at tho northern ipex of a very acute and dangerous salient. The Germans claim a tornl of 45,000 prisoners, together with more 'than four hundred cannon and "-thousands of "machine gune,B." in the near east, Greek troops, sup ported by French "artillery have at tacked the Bulgarians a'ong the Stru ma river, forcing them back more .than a mile on a nine mile front, in 'the vi cinity of Sirka I)i Legen. More than 1, 500 Bulgarian and German prisoners were taken including 33 officers in addition to a largo amount of material. Field Marshal Haig reported noth ing of importance on tho British north ern front. j ' SITUATION IS 6EEIOU3 - By Td L. Keen (United Press staff correspondent) London, .Tune 1. There is m dis guising the fact that the military sit uation is very serious, not only because the Germans advanced 2S miles in five days, but 'because they still have a largo nnm'bor of fresh reserve which, thoy rnn throw into the battle, accord ing to the opinion of a 'high authority today. T'ntlil it is krnrwn whoro these reserves will be used, the situation will renin in anxious. The transport of British and French reserves is working smoothly and there arc now plenty to check the German ad vara-e, with every hope of holding tho . enemy to little more progress, it waj di'cln.i ed. " I Aside from the main German object ive of ensiling the Anglo-French ar- j nues, tho enemy has three objectives the chaiinol porls. nepaiatiou of the Uritish and French armies and capture of Amiens and Paris. German reserves can now bo used in one of those it is rmposstible to tell which. The reserves at the right and ldPt of the crown prince's army have not yet been touch-' ed, it is known. I The Genmin attack in tho Aisne re gion was not a icomploto surprise, "bo-1 ciiuso an enemy cunccntrtitiun there was .no definite tul'onualion that a w:ut no iluinute uitormatlo that a really great drive was impending. The Gemming deservo every credit for the secret milliner dn which they Virought up their troops tho night before the a tack. Only two hours of artillery and trench mortar fire effectively cut the wire defenses. The first day of the assault, the advanced la FIFTEEN THOUSANDS IN FAIR PURSES Spaed Program at September meeting Will Be Very Attractive Purses totaling $15,830 are hung up for speed program for tho Fifty-seventh Oregon State Fair, to be held here Sep tember 23,-28, A. H. Lea, secretary of tne state fair Boarrt, announced today. Kxcepting the handicap all entri.es will close, July 15, and the moneys will fce uivmeci on, aa, is and 10 per eent. The 2:14 pace and the 2:14 trot are limited to horses owned and trained in Oregon in 1918, and the ownership must be in Oregon at the timo of entry and race. Tho money, will be divided as fol lows: 200 for the first heat: 300 for the second heat; $400 for th.9 third heat and $100 wil go to the horse standing uest m the summaries at the end of the race. c . After deducting 10 per cent from the purse, and which sum will be awarded to tlia horso standing test in the sum maries, one third of t,ho balance will be raced for each heat in the throe heat races. (, i Nq, entry fee will Ze exacted for the handicap, but five par cent to enter will be exacted in tho other races. Entries for the handicap must be in the hands of the eocretnry Wednesday afternoon, on September 25, and tho handicaps will be announced at 6 o'clock the night be fore the race. A relay race will be run each day of the fair, and the rules gov erning these races and the division of the money will be announced previous to the opening of the fair. Entries to the relay race close September 21. Following is the speed program for fair week: Monday, September 23. Kolay race, gentlemen riders, $1,500. Eolay race, lady ridors, $1,000. Tuesday, September 24. 2:24 trot, three heats, $000. 2:24 trot, three hoats, $750. 2:05 pace, three in five, $1000. Wednesday, September 25 2:08 pace, three in five, $2000. 2:08 trot, three heats, $000. CHAPTER XCIII. I had found, in my short married life, that there was one thing money eoulda't buy, and that was happiness. Perhaps had I been older, more accus tomed to the ways of the world, I should not have laid so much stress upon being loved, but I had been pet ted all my life. At home, love haa been so freely showered upon me, that I took it as a matter of course, That it was not a matter of course, I was fast learning. And it made me very unhappy. The days passed in what would have been a round of pleasure, had I had any .' ene with whom 1 telt acquainted someone like Evelyn to be with when George was away. But the people to whom he introduced me were so much older, or so worldly wise, that I long ed for the timo when we should- leave T had taken one trip on Mr. Barry's yacht. Julia Collins was not of the party. I wondered why and if my GERMANS' RAPID ADVANCE L&erty School Holds (Continued from page one) open fire on the Germans, la support of the infantrymen below. But sunset founcr the greatly out numbered poilua on the northern pla teau still keeping back the foe. During the first day of the German drive, I learned, several battalions of French troops, surrounded in the for est, of Pinon (then on the extreme al lied left) decided to fight to the fin ish. They immediately sent, a carrier pigeon, announcing their decision to tho French commander. Ho sent back an airplane which dropped an encour aging message in the forest Graduating Exercises; Mr. Denton's Address The graduating exercises of the Lib erty school last night wera marked by exceptionally interesting exercises, when nine pupils graduated from the eight grammar grades composing the school. A pretty May pole dance ani wreath drill preceded the address to th class which was given by Walter A. Benton, who has spoken at various gatherings at Liberty in the interests of the Bed Cross and other war actlvi- ThK eneirclWl troops iheld out, importing regularly by pigeons to their comman der, who rcpfied as regularly by air- planas, until 2:30 o clock Tuesday at- ternoon whm the last pigeon to ar rive carried a message announcing that the three battalions remaining had no .more ammunition and had been oblig ed to surrender. Lynchers of Praeger Acquitted by Jury Fdwardsvillc, 111., June 1. The eleven yonths accused of lynching Kobcrt Praeger, al leged German spy, at Collins ville, 111., the night of April 5, were acquitted after the jury had deliberated five minutes late today. Wild cheering greeted the verdict which was returned at 4 o'clock. Only two ballots were taken, according to reports from the jury room. TWO SPANIARDS KILLED. Washington, June 1. Two Spaniards were killed, two woui.ded and three are missing as the result w Bombardment of the Spanish steamer Maria Ilia by a German submarine last Saturday night, according to cable dispatch,! reaching here today. lX'Oluniig that ho did not know the steamer was Spanish tho submarine com mander expressed his regret and wire lessed JJ.JlIila for help. 2:12 paao, three heats, $750. Thursday, September 26 Ss:12 trot, three in five, $200. 1:19 pace, three heats, $750. Handicap trot or pace, mile dash $300 rnuay, September 27. i.H pace, three heats, $1000. 2.10 trot, throe heats, $600. :14 trot, three -lieats, $1000. Saturday, September 28. Free-for-all pace, three in five $1000. x ree-f or-all trot, three in fivo, $1000. ft;). Salem Heights Notes phase of the battle, the German high command is making every effort to de ceive the allies as to future turning of the offensive. Some prisoners claim one tiling, some another. All ,prolably are primed to mislead their Iraptora. Holme declare the Rheims offensivo in merely second ary and that the real Wow 5s yet to come. Others any the main thrust is to be toward Tpres. It is hardly possible that Foch and Haig will fall for such cock and bull stories. Likely enough they have a good notion o!f the main pinna of the enemy and will act cfordingly. ShelKnp and hoinbing of areas far in the rear of the linos continue. Pop eringhe and tho Flemish battlefields, the Arras sector and ithe Somvme coun- LADD & BUSH, Bankers Second Instaflment of Twenty Per Cent on Third Liberty Bonds will be due May 28, 1918. nmu1!) nriiuwi a nimiv' mile, nverrunnim- the French lines itry ar0 P"hPUy involved, and crossing the Aisne in an effort to cut the Paris-Chalons railway and to wi.k'u the salient he -had created. Cmniilerable ucccss attended his ef forts in the center, "but he was frus trated on the fhinkd. It is not rfViir to blame the allied commnud for the reverse- It was the ontceime of an inherently unfavorable strategical aitmvtiim. With numeric ally superior enemy, tho allies cannot have adequate reserves at all tlieir at tacked points which would be the only way of preventing initial German sue cews. British Lcal Sucqw Local fighting .in the Picardy area, re suiting to the advantage of the Brit ish, was reported by Field Marshal Haig today. "A hostile raid was repulsed east of Villem-lrcitoniieux," the statement said. "TA)cal fighting in Aveluy wood and mirth ot Albert resulted to our ad vantage. AVe took a few prisoner. "There was hostile artillery firing early this morning in tho Villers-Hre-tonneux and Hebtrrterne sectors. South and west of Lens aad in the neighbor hood of Givcrxchy, tfiere was active cannonading last night." WOULD DECEIVE ALLIES By William Philip Stmnis (Tinted Prese staff correspondent) Wi'h the' British Annie in France, .Tune t. While the armies of the Prus sian crown prince fcre thrusting touth wnrd across the country traversed in 1914. drunk with tho tucest of the first Faith of General Focn Paris, Jnne 1. The following story is told today, illustrative of the con fidence of the allied generalissimo in his armies: When General Foch recently visited Dunkirk, the mayor eaid to him: "General- you saved Flanders in 1014. You won't leave it ia danger in 1918t' Foch replied: "When one rememliers fcow we stop ped, the enemy four years ago, one must entertain no doubt with the means at our disposal today." Advanoe In Mesopotamia London, Jnne 1. "The Kurkuk area Elbert Thompson and family have moved to town and a Mr. Miller and family now' oneivpy the place. Miss Olga Wik'berg .spent last week end at home, from Mowmotith. Miss Oral Mic.Clain is experted home tomorrow froim Wasco. Miss McClain spent the winter as a teacher in the WaaVo high school and will teach there next winter. Miss Doris Sawyer waa the guest of her parents last week end, from O. A. C. Raymond' Willson of Oregon City spent last, week end at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Willson. Warren Edwards has returned to eastern Oregon, after a two weeks vis it with his mother, Mra. Walker. His sister, Mass Bessie Edwards, accom panied hfom as far as Portland, where she will be the guest of friends over the week end. Salem Heights can now boast of a now road. The hill back of the atore having been graded the past week. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. P. V. Thomvas a son, May 19. The Thomas family was former resideut of this place but now of Washington. Miss Marian Koberts of Block Eock spent a few days of this week with her mother. Mr. and Mrs. .T. A. McClain expect ed their son, Arthur of O- X. C, to spend a few hours with them today before leavtiiig for Frisco to attend the summer camp of the R. O. T. C. The Saleui Heigibta Red Cross auxil iary met for its regular weekly session at the hall Wednesday. The afternoon was spent 3n putting tie finishing touches to sever suits for convalescents lam for socks was distributed among going bad anvthing to do with her ab sence. Unfortunately, I was ill. The sea was rather choppy, and I was ac customed to a small boat. I did my best to keep up but finally had to go into the cabin and lie down. I lay there thinking that George would be cross. Then I wondered if he wouldn't be glad;it would be a reason to leave me at home and take Ji'lia Collins. Soon, however, the illness crowded all else from my mind. I wanted to got back to tho hotel more than ever I had wanted anything in my life or so it seemed to me. Almost A Quarrel George was very patient with me. both on the yacht and until we reach ed the hotel. Then, unfortunately, and tactlessly. I said something about Ju Ha Collins being a better sailor, and that, of course, he was sorry she had n't been along, instead of me. Why I said such a thing, I dont know; it just camo out of itself. George was furious. 'T certainly shall wish she were along if you continue to talk like a child." he said angrily. "For heaven's sake. Helen, try to act like a woman, not like a spoiled child." "YOU never do anything to spoil me,' I replied. I was still slightly ill, and consequently, not as careful of my speech as usual. "No, and I shall not! If your people at home had not been so indulgent, you would have been a more sensible woman. You have much to unlearn, as well as to learn." "Yes, I must, learn to Eve without lovo, as long as I livc: with you. I see that much very plainly." "That's not true." "It IS true. If you call vourspas- modio kindness to me, love, I do notl I would rather youd be cross and dom ineering all the time, than to be kind one day and then spoil it by being se vere and unkind the next. I never knew how to take you what to do to please you. There! You may hate me for being unladylike, but I am glad I have told you." I burst into a very passion of tears. ' George Calls Celeste Without replying George called Ce leste. 'Your mistress has been very ill. itv and was able to impart a personal note to his remarks to the class, that served to carry much weight. Alone anfl above the practical value of the idea he left with them Mr. Denton empaa sized in particular the value of imag ination :r. all worth while isndeavor, il backed by practicability of dotail. Ha also inline a special appeal to ihe chil dren of the school declaring it was for tht children of tha world that the boy tvei in the trenches were fighting. (Several good talk were also niado by the principal. Mr. Arnold, and the chair man of the school board, Mr liinbetz. Miss Katiierine Fowlo tho teacher of tU' primary grades is leaving the Lib erty school to acept a pcation in Sa lem. In appreciation of her servioes the advanced dosses presented her with a tz'.tt, th.i Tiresentatirrn being made by Mr. Denton. A large audience attended tne exercises tho hall being completely filled. FAIRBANKS CONDITION TEITICAl Indianapolis, Ind., Jnne 1. The con dition of Charles W. Fairbanks, former vice president, ill at his home hore, wa reported very grave early today. He is extremely weak and in a critical con dition. . Help her to get to bed at once. She is a bad sailor." "Oh, madame! The terrible mal-de-merl I, too, was sick whem I came to America! So sick!" Somehow her knowing sympathy helped me to pull myself together. Should I beg my husband's pardon for my outburst! No, I decided; I had only told the truth. I had said thing hastedly, bnt I had said only what had ' long been in my mind and heart to say. Yet, my courage almpst failed me when I looked at his stern, get face Would he ever forgive me "Good night. You are in noed of sleep. You will be all right in the morning, " and he left me. I had fal tered a faint "good night," hoping he would at least kiss me, but he didn't, ' and I gave myself willingly into Celeste's hands to bo made comfort able. I wondered idly where he had gone, but was still too ill to ca're very much about anything. "I said "vhat I thought, for once," said aloud. 'I hope it will do a little good." Yet, in my heart, I wa afraid I had only mado life harder for myself, and George would do some thing to show his displeasure with me. He showed his anger either because he . was not adept at controlling it, when I caused it, or before he didn't care te take tho trouble. Probably the latter. Tomorrow A Hard Lesson to Learn. HIPPODROME SUNDAY- f II fl HI fi rTII r i is ours, f ram which we have driven the khe members for home work, at the Turks across- the Iewser Zab," aa offi cial report of the Mesopotamia opera tes declared today. Kurkuk is an imiortan.t city 150 miles due north of Bagdad ami about 100 mdloe southeast of - Mosul. The Lesser Zab is a branch eft the Tigris river, flowing southwesterly 25 miles northwest of Kukuk. Fttaia'i Special Oder Paris. June 1. "May the battle of the Marne txtrin ainin, it did four years aire," General Petais declared in a special order of the day, issued today. Bombard ing Paris Paris, June 1. The long range bom Nrdment of Paris continued this morn ing. . . clone of the meeting. A pleasing fea tn re of the afternoon was the interest shown in the letter and pictures eent heme by Donald Willson and the let ters written by Arch and Ed Duma, all of the U. 8. navy. Thoee present were Mclaime. Wnn. Sawyer, Chas. Sawyer, F. A. Thompson, Fred Thomp son, Ada T. Wilson, Pray, Whitesell, Fulkemon, Miorris, Griftith, Wickberg aud Hall. save THREE BIG ACTS Arthur and Dolly LEROY SINGING, TALKING, .ACROBATIC, DANCING LEON DOMQUE The Paderewski of Vaudeville JONES and JOHNSON Comedians Par Excellence JACK MULHALL In a Sensational Timely Feature "MADAME SPY TOHTTNG TRAIL' The Starting of the Biggest, Wild West Feature ever made COMEDY-WEEKLY THEATRE V3-...'i?-y